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6. FUCHSIA Plum. 



Fruticose, with long-peduncled, axillary, nodding flowers, pink to pur- 

 plish or white. Petals 4, sessile, rarely wanting. Stamens 8. Ovary 4- 

 celled, many-seeded, becoming an edible berry. 



Species 60, chiefly in Mexico, and W. South Amer.; few in New Zeal. 



Much cultivated in gardens for their beauty. 



i. F. COCCINEA Ait. 



Differs from F. magellanica by having only a cup-like lower part of the 

 calyx-tube. (O. Ktze.) 

 Fuegia. 



F. COCCINEA ROBUSTIOR. 



Upper leaves sessile and petioles short. 

 Near Magellan. 



2. F. MAGELLANICA Lam. (F. macrostema Ruiz. & Pav.) 

 Branches glabrous. Leaves opposite or 3-verticillate, ovate, acute, 



denticulate, short-petiolate. Peduncles axillary, longer than the nodding 



flowers. Calyx tubular below, its lobes oblong, acute, twice as long as the 



spreading blue obovate petals. Stigma 4-lobed. 



(Chili); Patagon., by Lago Nahuel-huapi ; Magellan; Fuegia; Dawson 



I.; Staaten I. 



" In swamps"; much in gardens ; " moist lugare " of the Fuegians. 



Family 79. HALORAGIDACE.E. Water-milfoil Family. 



Chiefly aquatic herbs, with alternate or whorled leaves, if submerged 

 often pectinate-pinnatifid. Flowers small, perfect or diclinous. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to the ovary, its limbs entire or 2-4-lobed. Petals 2-4 or 

 none. Ovary 2-8-ribbed or winged. Styles 1-4. Nutlet or drupe, con- 

 sisting of 2-4, one-seeded carpels. 



Species 100, widely distributed. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



A. Aquatic plants with alternate or whorled leaves, the submersed being dissected into capillary 

 segments. Flowers small, monoecious ; carpels and seeds mostly 4 (or 2), styles 4 ; sta- 

 mens 4-8. I. Myriophyllum, p. 616. 



